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Missing Authentication for Critical Function

CVE-2026-22731

High
8.1/10

Summary

Spring Boot applications with Actuator can be vulnerable to an Authentication Bypass vulnerability when an application endpoint that requires authentication is declared under a specific path, already configured for a Health Group additional path. This issue affects Spring Boot spring-boot-actuator and spring-boot-actuator-autoconfigure versions 4.0 through 4.0.3, 3.5 through 3.5.11 and 3.4 through 3.4.14. This CVE is similar but not equivalent to CVE-2026-22733, as the conditions for exploit and vulnerable versions are different.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function

The software does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published